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Cocktail Culture

Superbowl PR Party!

by Editor 01.31.2011

The Cocktail Kitchen Finale Party!; A Taste of Tuscany at Cibo Trattoria; Blue Water Cafe’s 7th Annual Unsung Heroes Festival; Learn it, Drink it! Tuesdays at The Keefer Bar; Vancouver’s Rosewood Hotel Georgia and Hawksworth Restaurant announce opening date: May 7th 2011; Super Bowl in Style at RED CARD; Commune Cafe introduces new dinner menu
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Buffalo Trace Bourbon Dinner at Brix

by paulkamon 01.27.2011

With the recent announcement of Tales of the Cocktail coming to Vancouver this March, our city’s dynamic bartending culture is in the spotlight like never before. So when Buffalo Trace, one of America’s oldest and most respected distillers from Frankfort, Kentucky with over 220 years of whiskey-making history decided to send their [...]

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PR Party – 2011 Special Events Edition

by Editor 01.15.2011

Tickets on sale now for Tales of the Cocktail Vancouver!; Tickets to Playhouse Wine Fest on sale January 25th; The Glowbal Collection: Countdown to Dine Out Vancouver; Blue Mountain and Friends: A Feast for the Senses; Eat Drink Local – January 16-19; Red Card Puts a Unique Spin on Dine Out 2011; Upcoming events at Legacy [...]

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Jay Jones Joins Market by Jean-Georges as Lead Bartender

by Editor 01.10.2011

Award-winning, veteran bartender, Jay Jones, joins the team of Market by Jean-Georges as lead bartender. Jones, who has been at the forefront of the local bar scene for more than a decade, brings his signature stylings to Market to showcase bar service at one of Vancouver’s destination restaurants. Jones goes behind the bar [...]

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The Refinery’s Cocktail Kitchen Series welcomes 4 “bartender finalists”

by Editor 01.03.2011

Details inside.

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A Summer at Cocktail Kitchen

by Jay Jones 11.25.2010

Cocktail Kitchen at The Refinery has cruised though it’s ambitious adolescence to become one of the best nights out drinking and eating in Vancouver. Now into it’s fifth month, I have had a chance to experience almost 20 of these special cocktail pairing evenings. $32 gets you 3 quality dishes and 3 cocktails made by [...]

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Cornucopia 2010 – Whistler’s Celebration of Wine and Food

by paulkamon 11.19.2010

One of my favourite boozy weekends of the year is Cornucopia in Whistler. This year, I decided to approach the festival like I would a martial arts tournament: with a fighter’s willingness to take a righteous beat down along with an open mind ready to explore the numerous possibilities being presented without reservation.
While the red-lining [...]

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Tales of the Cocktail is Coming to Vancouver!

by Editor 11.17.2010

Incredible news! Tales of the Cocktail, the world’s premier cocktail festival will be making a stop in Vancouver for a mini-festival March 13-15, 2011

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Good Cause: Dish n’ Dazzle 2010

by Editor 10.22.2010

Dish n’ Dazzle 2010 – the BC Hospitality Foundation’s Fall Fundraiser on Monday, October 25th will showcase 13 of BC’s top chefs and 6 high calibre bartenders. The evening will be one full of fun and energy featuring an exciting Cocktail contest, food and wine bars, live music from “lesismore” and a celebration honouring unsung [...]

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Into the Slaughterhouse

by Jay Jones 08.31.2010

The beloved Vancouver East-side epicenter of consumption continues to crescendo. Recent years have seen a renaissance in eating and drinking explode, with local veterans of hospitality ambitiously sowing seeds in every available space. The particular allure of Gastown is two-fold: There is no corner of the city more rife with visible history and palpable character; [...]

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Cocktail Kitchen Series @ The Refinery

by Jay Jones 08.07.2010

Vancouver Cocktails and the Bartending community have come a long way in recent years, but we’ve only just begun. Five years ago, an event as ambitious and bold as The Cocktail Kitchen Series would not have been possible. The brainchild of the Refinery’s magnificently creative and gregarious, Lauren Mote; this series of events is set [...]

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National Barchef Competition

by Lauren Mote 08.04.2010

One of the coolest experiences in a bartender’s career is the ability to reach beyond the bar. You may take pride in being lightning fast during a Friday night well service, or you might thrive at pumping out classic drinks executed perfectly by the dozen at a cocktail party, but nothing compares to the incredible [...]

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